0 past simple and past participle of homestead --
1 in the past, to build a house and grow crops on land given by the government --
By the spring of 1905, many people who had homesteaded the summer before along with new homesteaders began building.
Later, farmers moved into the survey area and homesteaded on small tracts of land.
Wildfires were common in the area from 1880 to 1930, when the area was logged and homesteaded.
In 1872, the village site was homesteaded and placed under cultivation.
His family's small cabin, on the outskirts of town, is still standing on the land they homesteaded.
It was originally homesteaded in the 1880s, and the last ore was hauled out in 1942.
Although the town had been settled in 1845 and homesteaded in 1862, it had no formal name until the famous 1866 bear incident.
The area was homesteaded in the late-1800s and early-1900s with ranching, farming, and oil extraction being the main economic drivers in the region.
